The English-language monthly Tibetan Review has expressed misgivings about Chinese intentions in the current Sino-Tibetan contact saying China may be using it to merely blunt international criticism.
At first glance, the Indian prime minister seems endowed with an internationally unmatched ability to fundamentally transform a relationship with an adversarial state by paying one visit.
Born in Sin." These were the words used by Acharya Kripalani to describe the famous Panchsheel Agreement when it was presented to the Indian Parliament by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in May 1954.
Lately, there has been some forward movement in India-China relations. Indeed, they have come a long way since 1998 when New Delhi justified its nuclear tests, citing a security threat from China. India no longer maintains this view.
Seeking to placate longtime rival China, India has subtly shifted its stand on Tibet in a way to clearly recognize the Chinese annexation of "the roof of the world," delighting Beijing but raising questions about New Delhi's diplomatic game-plan and spurring concern among Tibetan exiles.
India and China vaulted over decades of mutual suspicion and hostility through their historic joint declarations signed in Beijing recently, but may have in the process sealed the cause of Tibetan independence forever.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to China has once again brought Tibet on to the centrestage of Asian politics. On the one hand, the Chinese are claiming to have succeeded in getting India to recognise
The tremendous potential for economic co-operation with China, if realised, will impact positively on the political ties between the two countries. This underplayed aspect of the Vajpayee visit may yet prove to be the catalyst
Belgian scholar Pierre Ryckmans coined the phrase the "100 percenters" to describe Beijing's international fans who support whatever China says 100 percent. Publishing under the pen name Simon Leys, Ryckmans compiled the statements of
What happened on 23rd of June in Beijing during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was the last thing that the communist leaders of China were prepapred for. In order to to score a point over the guests
